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https://www.reuters.com/world/china/australia-cancels-victoria-states-belt-road-deals-with-china-2021-04-21/

Australia on Wednesday cancelled two deals struck by its state of Victoria with China on Beijing's flagship Belt and Road Initiative, prompting the Chinese embassy in Canberra to warn that already tense bilateral ties were bound to worsen.

Under a new process in Australia, Foreign Minister Marise Payne has the power to review deals reached with other nations by the country's states and universities.

Payne said she had decided to cancel four deals, including two that Victoria agreed with China, in 2018 and 2019, on cooperation with the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature trade and infrastructure scheme.

"I consider these four arrangements to be inconsistent with Australia's foreign policy or adverse to our foreign relations," she said in a statement.

China's embassy in Australia voiced its "strong displeasure and resolute opposition" to the cancellations late on Wednesday.

"This is another unreasonable and provocative move taken by the Australian side against China," the embassy said in a statement. "It further shows that the Australian government has no sincerity in improving China-Australia relations."

Bilateral ties were strained in 2018 when Australia became the first country to publicly ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G network. Relations worsened last year when Canberra called for an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus outbreak.

Australia's latest move "is bound to bring further damage to bilateral relations, and will only end up hurting itself," the Chinese embassy said.

Australia's federal parliament granted the veto power over foreign deals by states in December amid the deepening diplomatic spat with China, which has imposed a series of trade sanctions on Australian exports ranging from wine to coal.

Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his predecessor Malcolm Turnbull had declined to agree to a country-level MOU with China on the Belt and Road Initiative.

But Victoria's Labor state premier Dan Andrews signed agreements with China's National Development and Reform Commission to promote the initiative in 2018 and 2019.

Some countries fear the lending the Belt and Road scheme entails could lead to unsustainable debt levels in developing nations, including the Pacific islands region.

Morrison's government has denied that its new veto power is aimed at China, Australia's largest trading partner and biggest source of overseas universities students before the pandemic led the country to close its borders.

Payne said states, local governments and publicly funded universities had notified her of more than 1,000 foreign deals overall.

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History was taken out of our school

Rossupti:
Where is the EVIDENCE of this Igbo 'unity' before the colonial interregnum?

There is a LOT of evidence of 'absence of unity' however. The numerous wars within Igbo speaking areas are a case in point.

Heck, one clan regarded another clan 2 kilometres away as a totally different country.

So what 'unity' are you talking about?

People sharing a common ancestry generally do not go to war against each other (and most certainly not at the slightest provocation).

Read what happened in Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which is a historical novel that is anthropologically accurate.

Ogbuefi Ezeugo, an elder of Umuofia, relating an incident involving the nearby village of Mbaino, said to a crowd of 10,000 Umuofians,

“These sons of wild animals have dared to murder a daughter of Umuofia.”…And in a clear unemotional voice he told Umuofia how their daughter had gone to market at Mbaino and had been killed."

[Ogbuefi Ezeugo] threw his head down and gnashed his teeth, and allowed a murmur of suppressed anger to sweep the crowd. When he began again, the anger on his face was gone and in its place a sort of smile hovered, more terrible and more sinister than the anger. And in a clear unemotional voice he told Umuofia how their daughter had gone to market at Mbaino and had been killed. That woman, said Ezeugo, was the wife of Ogbuefi Udo, and he pointed to a man who sat near him with a bowed head. The crowd then shouted with anger and thirst for blood.''

I mean, the people of Umuofia were ready to go to WAR with the neighbouring clan, based on a relatively mundane incident.

The only thing that prevented a descent to bloodshed was Okonkwo, the Umuofian, 'travelling' to Mbaino and demanding that they surrender a virgin and a young man in order to avoid war with Umuofia, to which they complied.

The young man, Ikemefuna, was later killed in Umuofia in recompense.

This kind of thing went on across all the Igbo-speaking areas. There was no 'unity'.

The united Igbo 'tribe' you have today is a 100% colonial, British creation.

Same as the other 'tribes' in Nigeria.

that’s because there was a no central body controlling these communities... today we have UN.. will you then say nationalism never existed until the creation of United Nations.. cos before then nations attack each other with the slightest provocations.. but now things are being sorted out at the general sittings..

Not until maybe a long time to come

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It take few people to set this nation on the right path

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Being doing good is humanity.. just that some of us chose to be anti human

Faber:
They think say they will exterminate black finish and come win World Cup, No nation since the modernization of soccer ever won the World cup without black players.

Even Copa America sef, they are having it tough to win it. Chile don beat them twice in two consecutive finals. Brazil also beating them.

Germany, France, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Belgium(currently) can tell you the impact of black players in their national teams.

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Thank God we beat them in Atlanta 96. I pray we meet them again in World Cup maybe at elimination round. Our young super strikers right now... Will retire Messi from World Cup.

Make them come win World Cup let me see. Even the Pope Francis of Catholic Church is a racist. He is more concerned about LGBT than black Christians being massacred all over Africa by ISWAP and Co. Except to appoint black Bishops which is normal for African dioceses. The guy does not look the African way.

superstitious African.. keep it up..

One of The greatest man ever liveth.. he wanted to unite the whole world under the same authority... liberated his country from the shame and shackles of that rubbish 1918 Armistice... the man that modernized Olympic Games and facilitated the first live tv broadcast of the game .. the man that brought the idea of atomic and hydrogen to reality.. started the idea of intercontinental ballistic rockery and eventually space exploration...

They did well by segregating themselves... most Africans are pests and leeches... they are already destroying the country...